Recaps

Xuanqing gained three gourds as the Demon Race and Immortal Court rose to challenge the Witch Race’s growing influence. As Taiqing revealed plans for the Underworld, the Demon and Immortal Courts prepared for war, leaving Dong Wang Gong to hear Zhen Yuanzi’s urgent intelligence.

• Xuanqing claimed three gourds from the Innate Gourd Vine, while Ancestor Reincarnation confronted Hongjun over his attempt to investigate Xuanqing.
• Dijiang established the Witch Race with the Great Dao’s recognition, and Di Jun founded the Demon Race after declaring his ambition to unite the Primordial Wilderness.
• Dong Wang Gong established the Immortal Clan and Immortal Court with Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi, drawing cultivators away from the Demon Race and prompting Di Jun to prepare an attack.
• Taiqing explained the Path of Prudence to the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches, then revealed that Styx was connected to the Earthly Dao and Houtu would establish the Underworld’s Reincarnation Core.
• The Witch Race gathered materials for the Underworld as the Demon Race conquered by force and the Immortal Court recruited allies by letting races retain their independence.
• Di Jun ordered Tai Yi to lead an attack on the Immortal Court and assigned Xuanqing to refine pills, while Dong Wang Gong prepared his forces and heard Zhen Yuanzi’s confidential report.

The Immortal Court repelled Tai Yi’s attack with its new formation as the factions prepared for war and Styx joined Taiqing’s plans for the Underworld. During the third lecture, three demons invaded the Primordial Wilderness, and the Witch Race captured Heaven Demon and brought him to Pangu Hall.

• Zhen Yuanzi helped Dong Wang Gong prepare the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, while Hong Yun recruited Quasi-Saints and brought Fuxi and Nuwa into the Immortal Court as Immortal Emperors.
• Taiqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches welcomed Styx as a descendant of Pangu and secured his aid in building the Underworld and Reincarnation.
• Xuanqing arranged a rapid-travel research project with Di Jun, while Ancestor Reincarnation negotiated for forty percent of its Great Merit.
• Tai Yi led the Demon Race against Penglai, but Dong Wang Gong sent the Myriad Immortals Great Formation into battle until Hongjun intervened and halted the fighting.
• Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires established clans and invaded the Witch Race, Heavenly Court, and Immortal Court during the third lecture.
• Hongjun’s corpses defeated Earth Demon and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches battered Heaven Demon and his clan.
• Taiqing ordered the Witch Race to bring Heaven Demon to Pangu Hall, and Dijiang dragged the captive to the Blood Pool.

As Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao and distributed Hongmeng Purple Qi, the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches prepared the Underworld and maneuvered against the coming Heavenly Dao. The arc ended with the Underworld nearing completion and Xuanqing making progress on a formation for the second Immortal-Demon War.

• Dijiang forced the Heaven Demon to swear submission and secrecy, then bound failed Heavenly Demon Tribulation-takers to future Earthly Dao Reincarnation.
• Hongjun distributed Hongmeng Purple Qi to Mituo, Di Jun, and Tai Yi, gave them treasures, and merged with the Heavenly Dao.
• The Sanqing used the Spiritual Treasure Attraction Art to claim nearly a thousand treasures from Treasure Distribution Rock, while Dong Wang Gong recruited cultivators and received Nuwa’s Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• The Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches organized construction of the Underworld, assigning its offices to powerful clones while Styx oversaw the work.
• Taiqing discovered Shouyang Mountain and the Kongtong Seal, while Mituo and Bodhi established Little Western Heaven after the Heaven Demon occupied Mount Sumeru.
• Xuanqing removed Tai Yi’s Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Tai Yi accepted it back as Di Jun chose not to risk removing his own.
• The Heavenly Dao Will entered the Jade of Creation, and Taiqing warned that it might awaken within ten thousand years as the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches continued building the Underworld.
• Houtu remained at the Underworld’s center to cultivate the Law of Reincarnation, while Xuanqing advanced his study of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Formation.

As the Heavenly Dao awakened and Hongjun plotted against the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables, the factions prepared for war and the Sanqing strengthened ties with the Phoenix Clan. Old Ancestor Destiny altered countless fates for the Heavenly Dao, prompting Yang Mei and the alliance to confront him.

• Xuanqing entrusted Ziwei with leading the newly born Star Gods, while Houtu completed the Underworld and broke through to the Late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• The Heavenly Dao awakened, punished Hongjun, and learned that the Sanqing had become Hunyuan Golden Immortals and that the Underworld had been completed.
• Ancestor Reincarnation gathered the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables into an alliance, and they made a Great Dao Vow against plotting or hindering one another.
• Hongjun activated his hidden method on Xuanqing to provoke conflict among the Venerables’ disciples, but Ancestor Reincarnation exposed the scheme and rallied most of them against it.
• Dong Wang Gong sought Hong Yun’s help, learned that Hongjun had manipulated him, and agreed to Zhen Yuanzi’s plan to escape his appointed fate while continuing to lead the Immortal Court.
• Taiqing led the Sanqing to the Undying Volcano, where he accepted Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird as disciples and joined Yuanfeng in planning to divert the volcano’s energy into the Return Ruins.
• Ancestor Karma manipulated Mituo and Bodhi into schemes against the Witch Race and the courts, while Old Ancestor Destiny used the Destiny Celestial Book to alter countless fates.
• After Xuanqing and the Sanqing connected the altered stars to Destiny, Yang Mei led the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to confront him, secretly placing Dijiang’s Merit of World Creation in a fate as Destiny restored the changes.